BTC Nosedive to 92K Hits DOGE, XRP Futures Hardest as Liquidations Climb to $1B

Crypto-Traded Futures See $1 Billion Liquidations in 24 Hours

Amidst a market correction, crypto-tracked futures faced significant liquidations exceeding $1 billion within the past 24 hours. The sudden dive in Bitcoin (BTC) from a record high of $103,000 on Thursday to nearly $92,000 on Friday sparked these liquidations.

BTC futures alone incurred nearly $500 million in net liquidations, primarily driven by $420 million in liquidations of long positions, indicating bets on rising prices. ETH futures accounted for a smaller $85 million in liquidations.

Liquidations typically occur when an exchange forcibly closes a trader's leveraged position due to insufficient margin coverage. Traders are liquidated when they fail to maintain the required margin for their leveraged trades.

Over 156,000 individual traders were liquidated, with the largest single liquidation order on crypto exchange OKX for a BTC/USD trade valued at $18 million. Notably, approximately 89% of those liquidated were long traders, speculating on price increases.

Beyond BTC and ETH, futures tracking Dogecoin (DOGE) and XRP registered cumulative losses of $50 million. This reversal followed a multiweek rally in both tokens, which had pushed open interest in their futures to record highs last month.

Open interest (OI) represents the number of active futures contracts. An increase in OI indicates an influx of capital into the market.

The market downturn has caused the crypto fear and greed sentiment index to shift from "extreme greed" to "greed," its lowest level in over 30 days. This index monitors volatility, prices, and social media data to gauge market sentiment, with fear typically indicating potential market bottoms and greed signaling market tops.